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THE SALEMIJE
Wednesday, October 15^
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! t New Tactics Aim To Move
Nixon With Public Opinioi
WKo Will Succeed Ho
Chi Minh In Vietnam?
Collegiate Press Service
By Tran Van Dinh
WASHINGTON—(CPS)—The Constitu
tion of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam
(DRV, North Vietnam) stipulates in its
article 70:
‘‘Should the President of the Democratic
Republic of Vietnam be incapacitated for a
prolonged period by reason of ill health,
the functions of President shall be exer
cised by the Vice President. Should the
office of President of the Democratic Re
public of Vietnam fall vacant, the Vice
President shall fulfill the functions of Pres
ident until the election of a new President.”
With the death of President Ho Chi Minh,
81-year-old Vice President Ton Due Thanh
becomes president of North Vietnam
(DRV). Until the election of a new pres
ident by the National Assembly he ‘will
remain the cermonial head of state. Still
in good health, he appears frequently in
official cermonies in Hanoi to receive cre
dentials from foreign ambassadors.
The National Assembly is likely to elect
Pliam Van Dong the present prime minister
as the new president. Born 62 years ago in
Quang Ngai (Central Vietnam) into a
scholar mandarin family, he began at a very
young age his education, under his father.
He is a nationally known poet and writer and
Chief of the Cabinet of Emperor Duy Tan.
In September 1955 he became Prime
Minister, a post hitherto held by PIo Chi
Minh himself. An austere man, he is expect
ed to continue Ho’s foreign and domestic
policies and will leave the support of Gen
eral Vo Nguyen Giap deputy pre-mier.
Minister of defense, and commander-inchief
of the Vietnamese people’s army.
If and when Pham Van Dong will be
elevated to the functions of President, it is
likely he will be replaced by Pham Hung,
the 52 year old deputy Prime Minister, a
man who spent all his adult life in the com
munist movement in South Vietnam.
The passing of Ho Chi Minh will return
the leadership of the DRV to the principle of
collective leadership and individual responsi
bility,” ideals Ho often preached. The powers
of the party and state will be shared by
Pham Van Dong, Le Duan (First Secretary
of the party), Truong Chinh (President of
the Standing Committee of the National
Assembly), Vo Ngyen Giap, Le Thanh Nghi,
Le Due Tho, Nguyen Duy Trinh, and Pham
Hung, to name the most important figures.
Competition and rivalry are not likely to
develop among them, especially at a time
when the war continues. They all support
the policy of “building socialism in the
North and liberation of the South.” Besides
being dedicated communists they are all
fierce nationalists who have fought together
in the last four decades under the same
leader, “Uncle” Ho.
By BILL SIEVERT
Collegiate Press Service
WASHINGTON—(CPS)—In one of his
rare displays of emotion. President Nixon
showed a combination of determination and
fear in his response to a reporter’s question
at his latest news conference about the
plans for massive anti-war protests this fall.
“I have often said that there’s really very
little we can do with regard to running the
university and college campuses of this
country. We have enough problems running
the nation, the national problems. Now I
understand that there has been and contin
ues to be opposition to the war in Vietnam
on the campuses and also in the nation. As
as far as this kind of activity is concerned,
we expect it.
“However,” the President said, “under
no circumstances w’ill I be affected what
soever by it.”
Nixon’s determined sentiments are similar
to the position Lyndon Johnson took dur
ing the anti-war action of 1966 and 196L
Came 1968 and Johnson was affected. Rich
ard Nixon realizes this and is trying very
hard to minimize the effects of the anti
war movement as it re-builds itself this fall.
The build-up appears to be mostly in
numbers, rather than in new tactics. The
Vietnam Moratorium Committee is relying
on the same tactics—class boycotts, teach-
ins, rallies—which dominated the anti-war
movement of the Johnson years. The New
Mobilization Committee (to End the War
in Vietnam) likewise is still relying on
massive rallies and marches to convince the
government to “bring the troops home now.”
The difference this year is the support
the anti-war movement is getting from the
populace. With the number increasing
rapidly, 500 student body presidents and
editors have signed the call for the morato
rium on classes October 15. Organizers now
expect one million students to participate.
Organizational meetings at several cam
puses such as Syracuse University have
drawn more than 1,000 students. A half-day
petition campaign in support of the morato
rium at George Washington University
brought more than 1,000 signatures.
Even administrations are getting into the
act. Rutgers University administration has
announced that the university will officially
observe the moratorium. At other universi
ties administrations have reminded faculty
members they may call off classes for the
15th and cautioned them aganinst scheduling
exams that day.
Small schools particularly seem to be get
ting into the spirit. The Colorado School of
Mines, for example, has voted to boycott
classes and canvass the community.
It will be particularly difficult for Nixon
to Ignore the protest if it comes, as is be
ginning to seem likely, from as a wide a
range_ of constituencies as students, uni
versities, administrators, labor unions, some
businessmen, and even some Republican
members of Congress.
Charles Goodell, a Republican
(Np, and Rep. Allard Lowenstein (D-NY)
both have demanded that Congress set a
time limit by which all U.S. troops must be
withdrawn. Other members of Con
igress ;
endorsing the proposals, includine",
r\( +c ® ®
of Democrats who will support theV^”
rium^ a^d hope ^ to make Congress un^'
meet Oct. IS due to a lack of
quorum,
Nixon, in his news conference
thought the proposals were too ne«; “
He said the well-intentioned ^00^'
would force the U.S. to continue itf!"
ence m Vietnam until the time lin,;, ,
or late 1970). The proposals, ho^vV”
tually set the time limit date as the ’ *
imum length of time the war can com,?
they left ample room for speedier ?
drawar.
Of course, Nixon added, the proposak ,1
would stifle the U.S. in the Paris P
Talks which still “have not made siRnifio
progress. ^
The President’s hopes that his token witl
drawals and draft call reductions wo
satisfy the growing numbers who belie”
the war should have been stopped Ions j,
(not to mention the draft) already ha!
been dashed. The plans for anti-war actir
continue to prosper, and the sincerity 1
the President’s draft reductions coiitL
to be challenged.
In answer to a reporter’s question coi
cerning intentional inflation of sumtni
draft calls to allow for the timely reductic
in the draft this fall just, in time to apnea,
studMt unrest, Nixon responded, “I don
consider that charge one of merit.”
And the call for October, 1968, was 13,8
men compared with a call of 29,000 for thi
October. This, October’s call will now I
spread over a three month-period, for
monthly average call of about 10,000, Thi
monthly average is only slightly lower tha
the monthly call for September, 1968.
In fact, draft calls have increased 70 pe
cent to^ this date since Nixon announced lii
first Vietnam troop cutback in June,
But the President appears pleased will
himself. “I think we’re on the right coiirsi
in Vietnam. We’re on a course that is go
ing to end this war,” he said in his pres,
conference. “It will end much sooner if \vi
can have to an extent, the extent possi
in this free country, a united front behiiK
behind very reasonable proposals.”
There may be a united front growing it
this country, but it is not the front Nixot
wants to see. Fall anti-war actions alreadj
slated are;
1. ) SDS national anti-war actioc
Chicago to coincide with the continuing
of the Chicago Eight, October 8-11. ’
js the most militant and unpredictable ac
planned.
2. ) The Vietnam Moratorium, class
work boycotts and appropriate non-vic
protest actions,, October 15, November h
etc. (adding a day each month until
war is stopped.)
3. ) The New Mobilization Commiti
two-day death march from Arlington Ce
tery to the Capitol, October 13-14. ,
4. ) The New Mobilization ConunitI
national march to bring the troops h,
now, in Washington, D.C., November IS
second march is planned for San Franc
the same day.
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